Dark Knight
STR focus · Warrior · Explorer
Leans on Beholder heals and spears with enormous reach while protecting parties with Hyper Body.
Legion effect
Increases %Max HP2/3/4/5/6%
Link skill
Invincible Belief
Automatically activates when your health falls to 15% of your Max HP or below. Restores 44% of Max HP every 1 sec for 3 sec
Cooldown: 90 sec.
Class overview
Dark Knight is a STR warrior class part of the Explorers. Dark Knight utilizes Spears and Polearms as their primary weapons. For their secondary weapon, Dark Knight can equip Iron Chains
Attack stats
Base multipliers and passive boosts unlocked while leveling.
| Weapon Multiplier | 1.49x | |
|---|---|---|
| Attack Speed | Stage 7 | Stage 5 for Polearm / Stage 4 for Spear  +2  +1 if Spear is equipped |
| Weapon Mastery | 91~94% | Base +20%  +70% |
| STR | +50(80) & +15%(415%) to assigned AP | +20  +30  +30  +15% to assigned AP extra +400% |
| Attack | +4% +100(150) |  +4%  +40 +30  +50  +30 |
| Crit Rate | +75% | Base +5% +10%  +30%  +10% when above 20% HP extra +20% |
| Crit Damage | +38% | +8% +15% +15% when above 20% HP |
| Damage | (+65%) |  +10% +20% +5% if Spear is equipped +6% when hit up to +36% |
| Boss Damage | (+15%) |  +15% |
| Final Damage | +134%(178.19%) |  +50% passive × up to +20% buff based on HP × +30% when above 20% HP extra +5% × +8% ×  +6% |
| Ignore DEF | +30%(47.08%) | +30% passive × +10% × +16% |
All actives
Quick reference for buffs, summons, and defensive utility to keep track of.
| Active buffs |  [200s] [200s] |
|---|---|
| Toggles |  (Special) |
| Summons & placables |  (Toggle)  [3s](20s cd) |
| Buffs with cooldowns | [30s](70s cd) [20s](60s cd) [60s](120s cd)  [40s](180s cd) [94s](120s recharge, up to 2 charges) [60s](120s cd)  [Up to 5s](15s cd) [18s](120s cd) [2400s](300s cd) |
| Binds |  [10s](360s cd) |
| iFrames | [ Final Pact:  [2s](180s / 110s cd)  [8s](260s / 180s cd)  [40s](900s / 600s cd) (Cooldown is reduced if enemies are defeated or bosses are hit a certain number of times)] 360s cd |
| Damage reduction (%Max HP) |  (-10% while casting | 10s cd)  [Up to 4s](-50% | 120s cd) [40s](-10% / up to 30% HP Barrier | 120s cd) [Up to 5s](21% HP Barrier | 15s cd) |
Inner ability
Suggested line rolls.
Regions w/ AS10 Cap
- Attack Speed +1
- Buff Duration +38%
- Boss Damage +10% / Meso Obtained / Item Drop Rate +15%
Regions w/ AS8 Cap
- Boss Damage: +20%
- Buff Duration +38%
- Damage to Abnormal Status +8% / Attack +21 / Meso Obtained / Item Drop Rate +15%
Hyper skills
Node picks once Lv.140+.
Evil Eye - Reinforce and Hex Reinforce- Final Pact - Damage and Critical Chance
Gungnir's Descent - Reinforce
V Matrix nodes
Boost node pairings & notes.
Primary Trio
Secondary Trio
Any combination of these skills are good but preferred from same category as you want to max primary first
4 Boost Nodes total are needed to reach Master Level 60 for these skills (with Matrix Points used)
- Nodes with the same Main Skill (skill at the top) cannot be equipped at the same time
Other notable combinations
References & thanks
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